Monthly Archives: May 2012

Flowers in May

Flowers growing around my garden in Co. Mayo on a sunny day in May…

© Aisling Jennings Photography

Gardening / Planting in the fine weather

 

This fine weather has everyone out gardening and planting in the West of Ireland. With the fresh vegetables like potatoes, carrots and cabbage planted, lets hope we can sample some of these home grown delights very soon 🙂

Sunset over Clare Island

Sunset over Clare Island from Roonagh Quay in Westport, Co. Mayo

Little bird watching the sunset on the fine summers evening in Mayo

© Aisling Jennings Photography

Roonagh Anchor

Not sure if this is really called an anchor, or what the exact name of it is, but it is used to tie the boats to the Quay. These shots were taken in Roonagh Quay, Westport, Co. Mayo at the sun was setting

© Aisling Jennings Photography

Anthurium Andreanum

This plant is a cultivated hybrid of an Anthurium andreanum and belongs to the family of the Araceae. The flowers are tiny on the yellow stem.

Anthurium is a large species, belonging to the arum family (Araceae). Anthurium can also be called “Flamingo Flower” or “Boy Flower”, both referring to the structure of the spathe and spadix.

Anthurium flowers are small and develop crowded in a spike on a fleshy axis, called a spadix, a characteristic of the Araceae. The flowers on the spadix are often divided sexually with a sterile band separating male from female flowers. This spadix can take on many forms (club-shaped, tapered, spiraled, and globe-shaped) and colors (white, green, purple, red, pink, or a combination).

Purple Wild Flowers

Purple wild flowers growing in a grass ditch in Commauns, Burren, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland.  If you look closely at this shot you will see that there is actually is actually a fly on one of the flowers which i didn’t notice at the time 🙂 It is called Herb Robert

Black and White Chandeliers

Wrought iron black and white chandeliers

Mayo Mini Marathon 2012

Ladies Mayo Mini Marathon, Castlebar, Co. Mayo – May 6th 2012

Or some ladies that are not so much ladies (men dressed as women) in the case of these photographs – even got a nice shot of some Spongebob Squarepants undies 🙂

Dandelions

Dandelions – The dandelion is a perennial, herbaceous plant with long, lance-shaped leaves. They’re so deeply toothed, they gave the plant its name in Old French: Dent-de-lion means lion’s tooth in Old French.

They grow individually on hollow flower stalks 2 to 18″ tall. Each yellow flower head consists of hundreds of tiny ray flowers. Unlike other composites, there are no disk flowers.

The flower head can change into the familiar, white, globular seed head overnight. Each seed has a tiny parachute, to spread far and wide in the wind.  The thick, brittle, beige, branching taproot grows up to 10″ long. All parts of this plant exude a white milky sap when broken.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane?

Small airplane flying round quite low in the sky in Commauns, Burren, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland on May 2nd 2012. Not really sure if it was flying lessons or not, but something different to photograph 🙂

Windsurfing

Black and white, sepia and colour photographs of a man windsurfing in Rosses Point, Co. Sligo.

Sandcastle

Photographs of sandcastles in the sand on the beach in Rosses Point using sand and stones in colour and black and white

Seagull

Seagulls flying round Rosses Point, Co. Sligo on a bright afternoon in April, in colour, black and white, and sepia